Long Qi hastily avoided Ye Kunlun's gaze and replied somewhat exasperatedly, "That was just repaying you for saving my life."
Ye Kunlun wiped his cheek and chuckled sheepishly, "Senior Sister, that was quite a casual way to repay me."
"You brat, then what kind of repayment do you want?" Long Qi met Ye Kunlun's eyes again.
Ye Kunlun felt a moment of daze; how could he not understand Long Qi's feelings for him?
He raised his hand and ruffled Long Qi's head, smiling, "Senior Sister, the current crisis hasn't completely passed. There should still be some minor trouble under the seal by the Changsun family. I'm afraid Eunuch Yuwen might not be able to handle it alone."
Long Qi gazed at Ye Kunlun intently, but she wouldn't let romance delay important matters.
"Little Junior Brother, I've really troubled you this time. Northern Territory is in danger, I owe you for this."
"Back on the mountain, Senior Sister took great care of me. As senior and junior siblings, where does owing come into play?"
Ye Kunlun was afraid Long Qi would be too distant.
"Mm," Long Qi nodded.
Suddenly, Ye Kunlun frowned, as if sensing something.
"What's wrong?" Long Qi asked immediately upon seeing Ye Kunlun frown.
At this moment, a wisp of ancient divine script in Ye Kunlun's sea of consciousness stirred, seeming to sense something.
Ye Kunlun narrowed his eyes, his divine sense following the fluctuation of the divine script, spreading outward.
A moment later, a look of joy appeared in Ye Kunlun's eyes.
"Ten Deaths Land!" Ye Kunlun blurted out, "Senior Sister, I sensed Jin Chan's aura, and I also sensed Ten Deaths Land. It's at..."
Ye Kunlun paused, calculating the exact direction of Ten Deaths Land, "Eighteen hundred miles east of the sea!"
"Ten Deaths Land?" Long Qi didn't know that Ye Kunlun had asked Jin Chan to find Ten Deaths Land.
Ye Kunlun had also not mentioned to Long Qi that his grandfather might be in Ten Deaths Land.
Ye Kunlun nodded, not having time for further explanation, "Senior Sister, my grandfather might be in Ten Deaths Land. I must go there immediately. Ten Deaths Land can disappear at any moment!"
"Alright, be careful!" Long Qi didn't dare to delay Ye Kunlun.
Ye Kunlun directly escaped through the void.
He had now broken free from the shackles of heaven and earth, and his divine sense could instantly travel a thousand miles without issue!
The appearance of Ten Deaths Land was an unexpected joy for him.
Within a few breaths, Ye Kunlun arrived in the vast sea eighteen hundred miles away.
Ye Kunlun's eyes shimmered with a faint green light as he gazed at the boundless seawater before him.
He sensed that Ten Deaths Land was beneath this sea area.
"Jin Chan!" Ye Kunlun spoke softly, his voice like a divine sound, piercing through the seawater, through Ten Deaths Land, reaching Jin Chan's ears.
Gua gua—
A frog croak, a flash of golden light, Jin Chan leaped out of the water.
"Go!"
Ye Kunlun's body flickered slightly, and he disappeared from the sea's surface.
The next second, he appeared in a dreamlike underwater world, the surface shimmering, surrounded by marine life.
In the distance, there was a light; Ye Kunlun knew it was the entrance to Ten Deaths Land.
As one of the Ten Great Secret Realms, the dangers within Ten Deaths Land were self-evident!
But no matter what, Ye Kunlun had to make this trip personally, even if it meant facing a mountain of knives and a sea of fire, he would not hesitate!
Ye Kunlun, without the slightest hesitation, flashed towards the entrance and stepped directly in!
A stream of light flashed past, and Ye Kunlun could clearly feel the power of spatial fluctuations.
After a brief period of blindness, he found himself in an ancient land.
A sense of sorrow inexplicably arose in Ye Kunlun's heart, as if loved ones were drifting away from him.
He found that his eyes were actually moist.
Ye Kunlun's heart jolted, and he snapped back to reality.
In his sight were densely packed gravestones, each inscribed with ancient divine script.
Ye Kunlun knew that these should be names.
And intuition told him that the people buried beneath the gravestones seemed to have an inextricable connection with him.
Ye Kunlun didn't have time to ponder too much; he just wanted to find his grandfather as quickly as possible.
"Grandfather!"
Ye Kunlun called out, his divine sense spreading outwards.
Other than desolation and tombs and gravestones, no one answered him.
Gua gua—
Jin Chan, perched on Ye Kunlun's shoulder, suddenly croaked and spat out a miniature scroll.
Ye Kunlun was stunned and looked surprised, quickly unrolling the scroll.
"Kid, if one day you find Ten Deaths Land, it means the Yin Dragon Sha has been broken, and the shackles of heaven and earth opened. Then it will be time for Grandpa to return to where he belongs.
Grandpa knows you have many questions. Your identity, your bloodline, do not belong to this long-forgotten tomb, nor does our Ye family, which has long been forgotten…
When you were born, Grandpa sensed you possessed the purest Ye family bloodline, the most authentic bloodline of Cang.
Therefore, Grandpa set up this situation ten thousand years ago. The me you see is from ten thousand years ago.
Cang encountered a tribulation, the Ye clan faced a life-or-death crisis, and you will be the only one who can save the Ye clan. But now you are too weak.
So, you must grow up as quickly as possible.
Good grandson, don't look for Grandpa anymore. When you have grown to the stage where you can age time with a flick of your finger and pluck stars with one hand, we grandfather and grandson will eventually meet again."
After Ye Kunlun finished reading the words on the scroll, it turned to ash.
A tempest of shock swept through Ye Kunlun, his mind buzzing.
Could everything he had experienced be a plan laid out by his grandfather, who came from ten thousand years ago across time and space to this world?
He could hardly imagine what kind of power it would take to travel from ten thousand years ago to his current era.
At the very least, with his current cultivation and realm, he couldn't comprehend it.
"Age time with a flick of your finger, pluck stars with one hand!"
Ye Kunlun, just thinking about it, felt boundless ambition surge within him.
To change time with a flick of a finger must involve extremely profound laws of space and time.
To pluck the sun, moon, and stars with a hand would certainly be the most supreme divine ability in this world!
"Grandfather..."
Ye Kunlun finally recovered from his shock and looked at the ground full of tombs, softly calling out.
His voice dissipated, and Ye Kunlun left Ten Deaths Land.
Hovering above the sea, Ye Kunlun suddenly smelled a faint fragrance, the scent of cherry blossoms.
His gaze sharpened as he looked towards the east.
His gaze pierced through the void and landed on a mountaintop, where cherry blossoms were blooming in profusion at that moment.
Ye Kunlun's eyes flickered as they settled on a woman sitting cross-legged on a bluestone.
As if sensing Ye Kunlun's gaze, the woman's eyelashes twitched.
Ye Kunlun walked on the waves.
The next second, he appeared on Cherry Blossom Mountain, in front of the woman.
"Yan'er, you're finally awake."
Ye Kunlun looked at Mo Ziyan before him and spoke softly.
He remembered what the high priest of the Eastern Yang Shrine had said.